No ‘Sic’ Em’ Bears’ uniforms for Baylor tonight or in NCAA tourney

Under pressure from the NCAA, Baylor has announced its sleeved ‘Sic Em Bears” will not be used in post-season play.

Adidas unveiled its line of new March Madness uniforms last week. The design that generated the most notoriety were the Baylor uniforms.

The Bears announced by Twitter Wednesday that they would not be permitted to wear the uniform.

The school has six different combinations of uniforms it wore during the regular season and will choose it picks on a game-by-game basis. It will wear its white uniform in tonight’s first-round Big 12 tournament game against TCU.

It’s interesting that the NCAA would choose to pick a fight with a sportswear company like adidas, which has supplied conferences and teams for many years. But in recent NCAA tournaments it appears that uniform designers have become more outrageous.

The NCAA apparently has decided that Baylor’s choices were egregious enough that it had to step in.

But my question is why the NCAA step in to do this earlier, say when the Bears wore their highlighter-yellow color scheme in the tournament two seasons ago?